ROKHL
VOLINSKI (1894-1944)
The wife of writer Emanuel Volinski,
she was born in Lodz into a poor Hassidic family. In her youth she entered the work force, and
she joined the Bund. She was a
well-known speaker and activist in the Jewish trade union movement, primarily
among Jewish women. In 1921 she left the
Bund and became active in leftist Jewish circles. She published articles mainly on socialist
women’s issues in the publications of the leftwing labor groups. She was confined in the Lodz ghetto where she
belonged to a group of writers around Miriam Ulinover, writing lyrical
poetry. In August 1944 during the
liquidation of the Lodz ghetto, she was deported to Auschwitz and together with
her writings perished in the crematorium.
Sources:
A. Ayzenbakh, in Yidishe
shriftn (Yiddish writings) (Lodz, 1948); B.
Mark, Umgekumene shrayber fun di getos un
lagern (Murdered writers from the ghettos and camps) (Warsaw, 1954), p. 161; Kh. L.
Fuks, in Fun noentn over (New York) 3
(1957).
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